Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother;
20
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
Flush-mounted gelatin silver print, probably printed mid-1950s.
13 1/2 x 10 1/2in
Sold for US$ 40,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    From the family of the artist; to the present private collection

    Literature:
    Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, Syracuse University Press, 2000, cover and p. 213

    Heyman, Phillips, and Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, SFMOMA/Chronicle Books, 1994, pl. 43

    Coles and Heyman, Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, Aperture, 1982, p. 77

    Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966, p. 25

Category: Fine Art / Photographs

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